Posted on 08/11/2004 6:41:38 AM PDT by kristinn
In an interview this morning on Fox and Friends, Kerry spokeman Jeh Johnson backed off of Democrat presidential nominee Senator John Kerry's repeated statements that he had spent Christmas 1968 on a secret mission in Cambodia.
Fox's Brian Kilmead asked Mr. Johnson whether Sen. Kerry would release the action report from January 20, 1969 regarding purported action in Cambodia.
Mr. Johnson said, "I believe you're referring to an incident that happened near Cambodia. Okay, well John Kerry has said on the record that he had a mistaken recollection earlier. He talked about a combat situation on Christmas Eve, 1968, which at one point he said occurred in Cambodia. He has since corrected the record to say it was someplace on a river near Cambodia and he is certain that at some point subsequent to that he was in Cambodia. My recollection, my understanding is he was not certain about that date.
Mr. Kilmead brought up Sen. Kerry's 1986 floor speech in the Senate where he talked about spending Christmas in Cambodia as being "seared---seared" in his memory.
Mr. Johnson replied, "I believe he's corrected the record to say it was someplace near Cambodia, but he is not certain whether it was actually in Cambodia but he is certain that there was some point subsequent to that that he was in Cambodia."
Mr. Johnson also repeated Sen. Kerry's canard that he left Yale in 1966 and turned down all options to further his education by choosing to serve his country. As was (barely) reported in March of this year, Sen. Kerry asked for and was denied a one year deferment to study in Paris.
The American Experience/Vietnam/Transcript/Cambodia and Laos <-- Yes, we were in Cambodia
What is so darn tough about entering "vietnam cambodia us" in Google, anyway?
I believe we bombed Cambodia starting around March or April of 1969 troops went in announced early 1970..a few days later Demonstrations at Kent state and elsewhere lead to student deaths...
left wing take on Kent State
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/polner.php?articleid=1856
ROTFLMAO!!!
I graduated in 1961. I thought we had lottery numbers then but maybe not. All I know is I got a draft notice after I graduated with a date for a physical.
So I applied to both the CIA and Air Force Officer programs.
SOG Special Forces and Marine Recon made trips into Cambodia prior to the official invasion in 1970.
I graduated in 1961. There was an active draft, even though we were not yet seriously committed to Viet Nam--it was simply a draftee army in those days.
I knew I would be getting a draft notice to report for a physical--and the likelihood was that you'd be inducted--so I volunteered for the CIA and the Air Force officer program
IOW, he wasn't in Cambodia before he wasn't in Cambodia.
You mean it wasn't seared in your memory...LOL!
Maybe Kerry was going up-river in Camboadia to rescue a pet hamster? It could happen.
request kerry's draft records here..
http://www.sss.gov/RECORDS2.HTM
also
http://www.sss.gov/FSdiffer.htm
Before the lottery was implemented in the latter part of the Vietnam conflict, there was no system in place to determine order of call besides the fact that men between the ages of 18 and 26 were vulnerable to being drafted. This lack of a system resulted in uncertainty for the potential draftees during the entire time they were within the draft-eligible age group. All throughout a young man’s early 20’s he did not know if he would be drafted. A draft held today would use a lottery system under which a man would spend only one year in first priority for the draft—either the calendar year he turned 20 or the year his deferment ended, whichever came first. If he was not drafted in his first priority year, he dropped into second priority. In this way he would be spared the uncertainty of waiting until his 26th birthday to be certain he would not be drafted.
Listed charges made in the book, each followed with response of Kerry lackey. Lackey failed.
BTW--new spin was "He was there, just can't remember when."
Write-only memory?
Thanks.
he was in Cambodia
It all depends what the definition of "in" is!
That's GOOD!!! :o)))) I've already called all my kids & relayed it to them.
bttt
It was seared -- SEARED! -- into his memory before it was unseared -- UNSEARED! -- out of it.
Your re-naming of the title is EXCELLENT !!!!
IMHO, This is the best way to refute any of the kerry-defenders.Show that kerry says NOW after years and years of claiming he WAS in Cambodia(EVEN in the Congressional Record,) that now he claims he was "near it".
Well it just so happens that kerry's statement VALIDATES that portion of the "Unfit for Command" book.Since that part of the Swift Vets book is now VALIDATED and VINDICATED,
I wonder what other portions of the book could be right,with a little background checking, since we are now finding out that the book is NOT A TOTAL LIE as claimed by the dems???
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